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Mallanaga Vatsyayana

Mallanaga Vatsyayana is the name on the Kama Sutra, a classical Sanskrit treatise of love, manners, and social life in ancient India. Little of the author's biography survives; the book is the life. Desire here is studied with the same patience others gave to law or ritual — rooms, conversation, and the art of paying attention. Two titles on this list. The Sutra is wiser and drier than its later fame.

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